The delay depends on what type of disk(s) you've got -- some spin up faster than others.

You can't continue skipping tracks until the disk's spun up, because it's synchronous. Pausing removes the need to spin the disks up, so you can generally keep skipping.

In v2.0, track skipping is asynchronous -- it'll attempt to spin the disks up when you stop skipping tracks, and decide what you want to listen to.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg